Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 1397

ROAD TRAFFIC
The Vehicle Excise Duty (Designation of Small Islands) Order 1995

Made
30th May 1995

Laid before Parliament
8th June 1995

Coming into force
1st July 1995

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 18(4) of Schedule 1 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Vehicle Excise Duty (Designation of Small Islands) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st July 1995.

2.  The islands listed in the Schedule to this Order are hereby designated as small islands for the purposes of paragraph 18 (meaning of island goods vehicle) of Schedule 1 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Steven Norris
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
30th May 1995

Article 2

THE SCHEDULEDESIGNATED SMALL ISLANDS

Inner Hebrides Canna Coll Colonsay Eigg Gigha Iona Islay Jura Kerrera Lismore Luing Muck Mull Pabay Raasay Rum Scarba Shuna Tiree Ulva Orkney Islands Copinsay Eday Egilsay Fara Faray Flotta Graemsay Hoy North Ronaldsay Papa Stronsay Papa Westray Pentland Skerries Rousay Sanday South Walls Stroma Stronsay Westray Wyre Outer Hebrides Barra Benbecula Berneray Eriskay North Uist Scalpay South Uist Vatersay Scilly Isles Bryher St Agnes St Martin’s St Mary’s Tresco Shetland Islands Bressay Fair Isle Fetlar Foula Out Skerries Papa Stour Unst Uyea Whalsay Yell Other Islands Arran Bardsey Island Brownsea Island Bute Caldey Island Isle of Ewe Flat Holm Great Cumbrae Inch Marnock Little Cumbrae Lundy Isle of May Rathlin St Kilda Sanda Scalpay Skokholm
Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order designates the islands referred to in the Schedule as small islands for the purposes of paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994, which defines the expression “island goods vehicle” for the purposes of Part VIII of that Schedule.

(1)
1994 c. 22. Paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 was inserted by paragraph 14(19) of Schedule 4 to the Finance Act 1995 (c. 4).